Driving Business Outcomes with IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA

Driving Business Outcomes with IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA

Gain the unmatched flexibility, reliability and performance of IBM Power Systems for your SAP HANA workloads

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ContentsThe time to explore your path to SAP HANA is now..............................................................3

Flexibility without compromise...........................................4Química Amparo transforms its capabilities.....................................................4

Asahi Kasei Group grows business opportunities............................................5

Würth Group sharpens its competitive edge...................................................5

Reliability you can bet your business on............................6Happynarae manages a torrent of information.................................................6

Granules India gains deeper insights................................................................7

itelligence Poland seizes competitive advantage.............................................7

Performance that meets your business demands............8International Textile Limited reduces lead times.............................................8

I-D Foods speeds order fulfillment....................................................................9

Boydak Holding sparks increased productivity.................................................9

A future-ready platform that minimizes risk...................10How IBM answers your challenges..................................................................10

Take the next step................................................................11

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The time to explore your path to SAP HANA is now

Flexibility without compromise

Reliability you can bet your business on

Performance that meets your business demands

A future-ready platform that minimizes risk

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Many leaders are already addressing the 2025 deadline to migrate to SAP HANA, and they’re asking tough questions: How can I simplify the transition to SAP HANA? What is the right infrastructure to provide superior virtualization and management flexibility? How can I ensure scalability? What is the best choice for faster speed to market to address ever-changing business requirements?

The answers to these questions depend directly on your choice of infrastructure—and your decisions will impact your business for years to come. To get the most from your database, you want to deploy on a platform that will help you overcome challenges and respond quickly to changing demands.

In the past three years, SAP and IBM have helped over 1,400 clients1 around the world implement SAP HANA on IBM® Power Systems™ servers. Why did they choose IBM Power Systems? As the following success stories show, these clients have discovered three key reasons why IBM Power Systems servers are the smart choice.

• Flexibility: As the first platform to support virtualized instances of SAP HANA in production, IBM Power Systems enable customers to run multiple SAP HANA instances on a single server.

Rapid adoption of SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

• 0 to 1,400+ clients in 36 months • 4 of the top 10 Fortune Global 5002

• 30+ cloud service providers/managed service providers3

• SAP Pinnacle Award Winner for Global Infrastructure Partner of the year 20184

• Available in the IBM Cloud™: Winning combination of SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

Discover how clients around the world are taking advantage of game-changing advances


• Resiliency: Using built-in fault tolerance, redundancy and self-healing capabilities, organizations can maximize SAP HANA availability.

• Performance: IBM Power Systems were purpose built for data-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, resulting in faster and more efficient analysis of business data.

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IBM Power Systems provide a highly flexible platform with built-in virtualization and elastic capacity on demand, enabling you to grow your database capacity without having to buy and provision a new server. Capable of running up to 165 SAP HANA production virtual machines (VMs) in one system with negligible overhead, IBM Power Systems allow you to consolidate your workloads and reduce your data center footprint, lowering hardware acquisition costs.

You have great flexibility in how you use IBM Power Systems. You can scale up or scale out. You can have a mix of traditional SAP workloads and non-production workloads running in a shared pool, side by side with SAP HANA production workloads. The result: more efficient use of system resources and high utilization.

IBM Power Systems support SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI), enabling you to use the storage and networking of your choice, change configurations, and still benefit from SAP support. This means you can deploy IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA and re-use storage and networking you already have on hand, further reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Take a look at the business outcomes the following companies have experienced due to the flexibility provided by IBM Power Systems.

Química Amparo transforms its capabilitiesCleaning-product manufacturer Química Amparo exports to over 20 countries across Latin America and beyond. Having set a target to double its share of the Brazilian market, Química Amparo needed to identify and respond with flexibility and agility to the ripest commercial opportunities. The company moved its core SAP solutions to IBM Power Systems, transforming its capabilities while lowering TCO and IT administration time.

Results:• Up to 30% faster reporting and time-to-insight• Lower TCO than comparable x86 servers over five years• 30% cut in time spent on server administration

Read the Quimica Amparo case study

A built-in hypervisor that allows you to do more with your system, plus the agility to grow as needed


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Asahi Kasei Group grows business opportunities Expanding fast, Asahi Kasei Group was looking for ways to streamline and optimize its back-office IT systems. Business volumes were outpacing the company’s ability to grow the IT infrastructure supporting its SAP HANA databases, and the company was faced with a costly replacement of x86-based systems. Asahi Kasei developed a scalable platform that transforms operational agility by migrating to IBM Power Systems.

Results:• Flexibility to manage ad-hoc, peak and planned growth• Reduced operational costs and total cost of ownership• Greater performance with a single, easy-to-

manage system

Read the Asahi Kasei Group case study

Würth Group sharpens its competitive edge Retailers operate in a dynamic industry, combining high volumes, low margins and intense competition. How could Würth Group streamline operations to trim costs, boost profits and win the retail race? The company consolidated its mission-critical SAP applications and databases on IBM Power Systems, delivering simplified operations and dramatically accelerated insight into business data.

Results:• Rapid response to market conditions enabled by fast

solution deployment and scalability• 86% cut to number of SAP HANA servers, streamlining

operations and reducing complexity• 43% less time to update solution stack, including

SAP HANA software and infrastructure

Read the Würth Group case study

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For many companies, SAP applications are among the most mission critical. The reliability that has been built into IBM Power Systems is essential as you move workloads into an environment where your system simply cannot go down.

IBM Power Systems are designed to deliver the reliability and fault tolerance required for mission- critical environments such as SAP ECC on HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP BWH with no performance penalty. IBM Power Systems are equipped with advanced memory RAS including chipkill with spare chips, so up to three chips can fail before you need to replace a memory board.

Likewise, extensive onboard error checkers, standard error-correcting code and a host of other reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features allow IBM Power Systems to survive soft errors, most often with no interruption to running operating systems or processes.

Built-in fault tolerance, redundancy and self-healing capabilities provide up to 99.999 percent uptime.6

Several companies have seen real benefits in their business due to the reliability provided by IBM Power Systems.

Happynarae manages a torrent of informationHappynarae helps social enterprises in South Korea prosper by advising them on best practices for procurement, materials management and more, and analyzes large quantities of its clients’ data. To process huge volumes of data quickly and reliably, Happynarae migrated its business-critical SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to the SAP S/4HANA platform, deployed on powerful IBM Power Systems servers.

Results:• Improved decision-making by enabling rapid data access• Increased service quality by helping identify opportunities

to secure bulk-buy discounts• Enabled social enterprises to fine-tune their marketing

activities, boosting sales

Read the Happynarae case study

The redundancy and resiliency to keep mission-critical environments up and running


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Granules India gains deeper insights Targeting ambitious growth, Granules India is expanding its portfolio and entering new markets. To boost profitability across its booming business, the company sought deeper insight into the costs and margins of each product, manufacturing facility, region and more. Granules India decided to implement SAP S/4HANA with IBM Services, and host and manage the application on IBM Power Systems.

Results:• Enhanced decision-making with new insights

into profitability• 25% growth forecast in 24 months• 3 times greater compute density from IBM Power Systems

Read the Granules India case study

itelligence Poland seizes competitive advantage As IT service providers jostle for market share, victory will come to the companies that outperform on cost-efficiency and service quality. By running SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA hosting services on IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem®, itelligence Poland offers first-class service-level agreements at ultra-competitive prices, shaking off the competition.

Results:• Accelerated provisioning of new client systems from

two days to a few hours• Reduced operational costs, helping itelligence to

undercut rivals’ fees• 5x lower latency to deliver stellar service to clients

Read the itelligence Poland case study

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When you are running an in-memory database like SAP HANA, the speed of delivering information greatly depends on how quickly data moves within the system. IBM Power Systems are designed with high bandwidth between the memory and CPUs, both in IBM POWER8® and continuing into and improving with IBM POWER9™ processors. SAP HANA also takes advantage of multithreading in IBM Power Systems to reduce workload spikes.

Compared to x86 systems, IBM Power Systems with multithreading and high-bandwidth memory enable larger environments with fewer cores, while delivering outstanding performance. Many clients have seen performance gains after moving from SAP HANA on x86 systems to SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. These gains translate into real business advantages for companies, including improved customer satisfaction, time and money saved, and increased agility.

IBM developers working onsite at SAP in Germany continue to push the envelope with IBM Power Systems. IBM POWER9-based scale-out systems provide up to 4 TB of memory on a 2-socket, 24-core server—providing more scalability in a significantly smaller footprint. IBM Power Systems provide unmatched scalability in the industry for SAP HANA workloads and SAP has certified7 IBM Power Systems to support a single 24 TB VM in scale-up systems for online transaction processing (OLTP) environments.

In addition, POWER8-based Enterprise systems have 32 TB of memory available and scalability has been increased to 64 TB of memory in the POWER9-based

Enterprise systems. This increased memory provides not only the scalability needed for in-memory databases, but also the flexibility to deploy multiple VMs and dynamically increase or decrease system resources at flexible granularity to address business requirements.

Here are some real-world examples of companies that have gained performance benefits with IBM Power Systems.

International Textile Limited reduces lead timesHeadquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, International Textile Limited manufactures and exports towels and bedding across the globe. To serve even more customers internationally, the company ramped up production and refreshed its SAP ERP applications, migrating to the SAP HANA database running on IBM Power Systems.

Results:• 20% reduction in lead times, enabling customers

to get their hands on goods faster• 10x faster reporting for remarkably low time to insight• Reduced operational costs with a smaller footprint

compared to x86 architecture

Read the International Textile Limited case study

Top-of-the-line multithreading and memory to accelerate insights


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I-D Foods speeds order fulfillmentHungry for growth, I-D Foods set out to gain competitive advantage by accelerating fulfillment of customer orders. To meet its aim, the company required rich, real-time insight into operations. I-D Foods decided to replace its aging, custom-built applications with a state-of-the-art SAP S/4HANA solution running on IBM Power Systems and IBM Storwize® storage.

Results:• 6x faster transfer of customer orders to I-D Foods

expected through new mobile app• Days saved on warehouse processes will drive faster

fulfillment of customer orders• 87.5% smaller physical footprint for lower hosting fees

Read the I-D Foods case study

Boydak Holding sparks increased productivity Turkish conglomerate Boydak Holding relies on a core set of SAP ERP applications that support more than 3,000 employees in their daily work. Boydak Holding upgraded its core SAP ERP systems to the SAP HANA platform running on state-of-the-art IBM Power System E870 servers, dramatically accelerating response times for business users.

Results:• Up to 120x faster SAP reporting enables employees to

work more productively• 74% cut in database size helps save on storage

infrastructure and accelerate backups

Read the Boydak Holding case study

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CEOs and CIOs across industries tell us that IBM’s help in following the SAP roadmap to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA while minimizing risk is very important to their companies. Over 1,400 organizations have purchased IBM Power Systems to run SAP HANA. These businesses know that unmatched flexibility, resiliency and performance make IBM Power Systems a great platform for SAP HANA deployment.

How IBM answers your challenges

• Minimizing the complexity of SAP HANAinfrastructure: Make infrastructure easier and fasterto deploy with IBM Power Systems offerings tailoredfor SAP HANA. These offerings can support a greaterworkload density and require fewer servers. And youhave easier to manage system management tools thatintegrate with SAP Landscape Management (SAP LaMa).

• Ensuring the infrastructure can meet changingdemands: Capitalize on PowerVM® virtualizationcapability, plus elastic capacity on demand. Thisallows you to run applications more flexibly andgrow capacity along with the size of the SAP HANAenvironment by turning processors and memory onand off as needed and dynamically increasing ordecreasing system resources.

In addition, the IBM Systems Lab for Power Systems has developed experience and best practices from performing hundreds of SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems deployments worldwide.

IBM Power Systems provide infrastructure you can trust. You benefit from tight alignment of IBM with SAP for more than 40 years. And now, you have a roadmap for the future that is directly aligned with big data and in-memory workloads. SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: It’s the smart move.

• Avoiding high costs when running SAP HANA: Runmore SAP HANA production environments on a singleserver8 to reduce the number of physical systems,energy and floor space required. The ability to runmixed workloads allows you to deploy SAP HANA nextto existing SAP or non-SAP systems on the sameIBM Power Systems server.

• Providing the reliability needed for SAP HANAdatabases: IBM Power Systems servers deliver up to99.9999 percent uptime with redundancy built in for criticalcomponents. The built-in hypervisor has no documentedsecurity exposures, further limiting outage risk.

• Maintaining an advantage over your competitors usingSAP HANA: Get information fast with the IBM Power Systemsarchitecture, which features high in-memory bandwidth,I/O bandwidth, simultaneous multithreading and cachedesigned for handling big data.

Infrastructure you can trust with a roadmap for the SAP workloads you depend on


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Are you ready to explore what SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems can do for your organization? To learn more, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/power/saphana

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